LOOK LIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look like mean? 

• LOOK LIKE (verb)
  The verb LOOK LIKE has 1 sense:

1. bear a physical resemblance to

  Familiarity information: LOOK LIKE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK LIKE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bear a physical resemblance to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

She looks like her mother

Hypernyms (to "look like" is one way to...):

resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

"These systems run the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of what you should look like if you want to be recognized as a man or a woman," said Scheuerman.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

D100 will look like D99 in a few hundred million years.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

Don't I look like a married man and the head of a family?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These cells look like muscle cells, in terms of the way they function and their phenotype, but they don't stop dividing, which is why they form tumors at various sites in the body.

(New Genes Found Responsible for Regulating Muscle Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But it doesn't look like an elliptical galaxy, either.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

Under a microscope, they look like balls, rods, or spirals.

(Bacterial Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

In its early stages, it may look like a normal pregnancy.

(Cancer and Pregnancy, NIH)

Blasts of radiation and winds from newborn stars push these PAHs into a spherical shells that look like green bubbles in Spitzer's images.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

This unique system hints at what our own Solar System might look like in the distant future.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

You make the best of it—but after you have been a week at Hartfield, you are all of you different creatures; you do not look like the same.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)